IPv6 Statistics

Over the years one of the most common responses received when asking “does your $widget support IPv6?” is “well, no one has asked for it”, or “no one actually uses IPv6”. To myself and others that have been actually using IPv6 for well over 20 years, this is a tired, uninformed, and overall dull response to a legitimate feature question. Over the last 4 years, and likely due to the explosion of IPv6 deployments, this has become significantly less common of a reply.

IPB181 - Answering Your IPv6 Questions

So many great questions! You’ve sent in questions and on this IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Nick, and Tom answer them. Questions include using DHCPv6 versus SLAAC in a home network, IPv6 and email services, a NAT66 recap, and more. Stay tuned for full episodes coming up that cover Path MTU discovery and IPv6 and containers. Listen here: Episode Links: Google IPv6 Statistics My Updated Fiber7-X VyOS 1.5 Config – John Howard’s blog

IPv6Planner - a basic IPv6 subnet planning tool

There are so many ways to create IPv6 Subnet plans. As discussed in IPv6 Buzz 180, an address plan is one of, if not the first step. Because getting started in the IPv6 subnet planning can be somewhat daunting, I wrote this go application to help bootstrap the process. This open source tool can be used along with the web version of ipv6utils, or the CLI tool. It’s not the Swiss army knife, but it’s enough to build a starting point.